This section describes how to display a spatial MySQL table (meaning that the table has a column of type
geometry) in MapServer. OGR’s MySQL driver was expanded in
OGR version 1.3.2 to support access to MySQL spatial tables.

The DATA parameter is used to perform the SQL select statement to access your table in MySQL. The geometry
column is required in the select statement; in the above example the SHAPE column is the geometry column
in the province table.